Benjamin Spragg Among the Remaining 182 Players Seeking Glory in Record-Breaking €2,200 FPS High Roller
Welcome to Day 2 of the record-breaking €2,200 French Poker Series High Roller at the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour presented by Monte-Carlo Casino®. Today will be the final day of the tournament and play is set to resume at 1 p.m. local time.
A total of 1,234 entries were made at Sporting Monte-Carlo, blowing the previous FPS High Roller attendance record of 918 out of the water. An unfathomable total prize pool was generated with a worth of €2,369,280. 182 players are returning for Day 2, and all of them are in the money. The exact payout structure is yet to be announced, but first place is expected to entail a payday of over €300,000.
Shiina Okamoto of Japan sits atop the leaderboard, carrying a heavy bag with 1,106,000 chips into Day 2. She is the only player who was able to gather over one million, as her nearest contender is Cyprus’ Yiannis Liperis with 733,000 in chips. Mikhail Nikolaev from Latvia rounds out the top three, bringing 670,000 into Day 2. Bracelet winner Enrico Camosci barely clinched a top ten spot as well, sitting in 9th place with 530,000 chips.
€2,200 FPS High Roller Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shiina Okamoto | Japan | 1,106,000 | 138 |
| 2 | Yiannis Liperis | Cyprus | 733,000 | 92 |
| 3 | Mikhail Nikolaev | Latvia | 670,000 | 84 |
| 4 | Samiyel Duzgun | Switzerland | 666,000 | 83 |
| 5 | Florian Guimond | France | 620,000 | 78 |
| 6 | Dinesh Alt | Switzerland | 590,000 | 74 |
| 7 | Gerald Karlic | Austria | 574,000 | 72 |
| 8 | Ewen Trevidy | France | 558,000 | 70 |
| 9 | Enrico Camosci | Italy | 530,000 | 66 |
| 10 | Juan Carlos Vecino | Spain | 496,000 | 62 |
Other well-known big stacks include Tom Orpaz (430,000), four-time bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche (398,000), Wagner Ripper (351,000), who came third in this very same event during EPT Paris, and Renat Bohdanov (334,000).
PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin Spragg also made his way to the second day of the tournament. With 178,000 he is playing a stack of just over 22 big blinds, which he will try to run up as he is sure to have his eyes set on the trophy.
Conor Beresford (104,000), Roberto Romanello (71,000), Boris Kolev (58,000), Harry Lodge (36,000), and Maria Lampropulos (29,000) are among the shortest stacks of the field and will have to maneuver carefully if they want to make an even deeper run.
Day 2 will commence at 1 p.m. local time and will start with over half an hour to go on blind Level 17. Blinds will be at 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 big blind ante. The tournament is scheduled to play to its conclusion today, with the champion of the record-breaking FPS High Roller set to be crowned.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be there to bring you all the action live from the tournament floor, so stay tuned for regular updates.